
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
On Debian Wheezy, a look at dependencies indicates that Inscape depends on dbus, via libgnomevfs2-0 and some other dependency routes. Modern dbus has been co-opted by systemd, which I, and a lot of other people, are refusing to put on their computers.
What would it take to get rid of all direct and indirect dependencies on systemd?
This seems like it might be a bit of a red herring. The type of dependency might be akin to saying that we rely on kernel x.y.z since we use the filesystem and the filesystem is provided by kernel x.y.z.
In the scenario you describe, one can get a 'clean' system by installing an implementation of dbus that does not rely on systemd and then removing systemd. Or more surgically by building inkscape with gnomevfs disabled.